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This research-based, comprehensive introduction to multicultural education and diversity prepares future teachers for the wide diversity of students they will meet in their classrooms, schools, and communities. Moving beyond the purely cultural approach of many comparable texts, Human Diversity in Education addresses the full range of human diversity found in today's schools--including nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, class, language, sexual orientation, and ability levels.Based on the assumption that change begins with the individual teacher, the text argues that prospective teachers must learn to incorporate issues of diversity in all of their work--including in their interactions with children, parents, colleagues, and the community.

Preface

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part one Foundations for Multicultural Teaching

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(148)

1 EDUCATION IN A CHANGING SOCIETY

3

(26)

Case Study: Drew Daniels' Diversity Class

4

(1)

The Reality of Social Change

5

(5)

Demographics in Transition

5

(1)

Institutions in Transition

6

(4)

Economics and Politics

Marriage and Family Life

Organized Religion

7

(3)

Schools as a Reflection of Social Change

10

(3)

Demographics

10

(1)

Language

10

(1)

Ability

11

(1)

Gender

11

(1)

Students and Teachers: A Clash of Cultures?

12

(1)

Rethinking Schools and Learning: The Effort to Reform Our Schools

12

(1)

Schools in Transition

13

(7)

Characteristics of Classrooms for the Industrial (Factory) Age, or Second Wave

14

(1)

Standardization

Synchronization

Specialization

Centralization

Large Scale

14

(1)

Characteristics of Classrooms for the Information Age, or Third Wave

15

(3)

Individualization and Choice

Collaboration

Diversity

Decentralization

Small Scale

16

(2)

Where We Are Today

18

(1)

The Difficulty of Change

18

(2)

Ideological Perspectives on Multicultural Education

20

(2)

Goals of This Book

22

(3)

Goal 1: To Recognize Social and Cultural Change

24

(1)

Goal 2: To Understand Culture, Learning, and the Culture-Learning Process

24

(1)

Goal 3: To Improve Intergroup and Intragroup Interactions

24

(1)

Goal 4: To Transmit Intercultural Understanding and Skills to Students